The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) Local 13 and the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) are establishing a workforce training program throughout the San Pedro Bay complex to ensure sustainable manpower and work opportunities in the Los Angeles port complex. 

 

The workforce training program will provide maintenance, repair, up-skill and re-skill training for up to 900 registered longshore workers and mechanics. The  agreement calls for the ILWU mechanics to begin familiarization and training of the new APM equipment in the coming weeks as it begins a modernization project on its terminal.

 

APM Terminals has agreed to defer additional automated-related projects until at least July 1, 2022. 

The training program will be developed in close cooperation with the ILWU Local 13 and PMA, and a location at the Port of Los Angeles for a permanent longshore training complex will soon be identified.

 

Mayor Eric Garcetti, in announcing the agreement said it will also establish a Blue Ribbon Commission, to study and recommend port-related work at the Port of Los Angeles to be the basis of ongoing efforts to ensure a competitive, sustainable port to generate jobs.

 

The Blue Ribbon Commission will be convened in the coming months to look into the future of work at the Port of Los Angeles and study the issue of automation.

 

The agreement follows several months of negotiations between the ILWU and APMT over the automation of Pier 400 — the largest terminal at the Port of Los Angeles.